The Swahili coast of Africa is often described as a paragon of transnational culture and racial fluidity. Yet, during a brief period in the 1960s, Zanzibar became deeply divided along racial lines as intellectuals and activists, engaged in bitter debates about their nation's future, ignited a deadly conflict that spread across the island. War of Words, War of Stones explores how violently enforced racial boundaries arose from Zanzibar's entangled history. Jonathon Glassman challenges explanations that assume that racial thinking in the colonial world reflected only Western ideas. He shows how Africans crafted competing ways of categorizing race from local tradition and engagement with the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds. War of Words, War of Stones: Racial Thought and Violence in Colonial Zanzibar Glassman, Jonathon, Indiana University Press

Glassman, Jonathon

Titre:

War of Words, War of Stones: Racial Thought and Violence in Colonial Zanzibar

ISBN:

025322280X

The Swahili coast of Africa is often described as a paragon oftransnational culture and racial fluidity. Yet, during a brief period in the 1960s, Zanzibar became deeply divided along racial lines as intellectuals and activists, engaged in bitter debates about their nation's future, ignited a deadly conflictthat spread across the island. War of Words, War of Stones explores how violentlyenforced racial boundaries arose from Zanzibar's entangled history. JonathonGlassman challenges explanations that assume racial thinking in the colonial worldreflected only Western ideas. He shows how Africans crafted competing ways ofcategorizing race from local tradition and engagement with the Atlantic and IndianOcean worlds.

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